From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
Message-ID: <ab89994d75816fe438a5c6457b6b7fe5@quintile.net>
From: "Steve Simon" <steve@quintile.net>
Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2005 09:50:50 +0000
To: lucio@proxima.alt.za, 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] MS Research reinvents Inferno?
In-Reply-To: <b2e8307139bac0cbf3a9927b41268b9d@proxima.alt.za>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Cc: 
Topicbox-Message-UUID: c55ecd4e-ead0-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025

> >  - are there symbolic links in any other Microsoft OSes?
> 
> Shortcuts resemble symbolic links.  I never looked any deeper than that.

Danger Will Robinson!

Off topic I know but I have recently spent some heartache
understanding shortcuts on windows:

Shortcuts are a Windows explorer feature, you can click through
a shortcut and windows open-a-file dialogue then the application gets
the resolved windows path, however you cannot use shortcuts in
console applications.

If your Windows OS of choice sits on top of NTFS then you can create
the equivilent of hard links (Reparse points in MS parlence) which
exist in the disk driver so all programs obey them. There are some
tools to manipulate these on MS's website.

-Steve